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A federal jury Tuesday convicted Hamilton Township, New Jersey Mayor John Bencivengo in connection with $12,400 in bribes he solicited and accepted in exchange for his official influence to assist a health insurance broker maintain her contract with the township’s school district, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.

A registered nurse pleaded guilty Tuesday and a former program coordinator pleaded guilty Monday in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN), announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division

William Rullo, 47, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in prison for a scheme to defraud the First Judicial District (“the district”) of Pennsylvania, where he was employed, between 1999 and 2010.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced Wednesday’s sentencing of Jose L. Alberto, the former lead code compliance officer for the city of Miami Beach. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola sentenced Alberto to 51 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.

Amin Ravan, a citizen of Iran, and his Iran-based company, IC Market Iran (IMI), have been charged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling, and violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in connection with the unlawful export of 55 military antennas from the United States to Singapore and Hong Kong.

The Technological Research and Development Authority (TRDA) has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the Department of Commerce, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that New Jersey-based stock trader Mark Allen Lefkowitz pled guilty yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge William McCurine, Jr. and admitted conspiring with the chief executive officer of a San Diego-based company to defraud the company’s own shareholders.

Curtis L. Morris, age 43, of Elizabeth, Colo., was sentenced Monday in Denver to 120 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Judge Blackburn also ordered Morris to pay $ $1,916,831 in restitution to the IRS.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and April Brooks, the Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced Tuesday the unsealing of insider trading charges against Mathew Martoma, a former portfolio manager for a division of a group of affiliated hedge funds (the hedge fund).

Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc. and its affiliated hospitals (Morton Plant) have agreed to pay $10,169,114 to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for services rendered to Medicare patients, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.